Review: the Urban Remedy Keto Meal Plan

A low-carb, high-fat diet that’s been described as “Atkins on steroids” is gaining momentum in Silicon Valley. The ketogenic diet — “keto” for short — encourages eating bacon, butter, eggs, nuts, avocados, and other healthy fats, and tech workers say it super-charges the human body.

Eat lots of fat might sound great, but the keto diet is harder to maintain than you might expect.

Urban Remedy, an organic food company that sells ready-to-eat meals, juices, and snacks in the Bay Area and online, launched a pre-made keto meal kit to help people dive in. The plan includes three days’ worth of low-carb, high-fat meals, so customers don’t have to keep track of their carbohydrate intake in the early days of the diet. The plan costs $210.

On the keto diet, the body switches from burning carbs to burning fat as its primary fuel source — a process known as ketosis, which gives the diet its name. Adherents of the keto diet often fill up on healthy fats, as well as leafy greens and animal protein, in order to prime the body for this state.

Eat lots of fat might sound great, but the keto diet is harder to maintain than you might expect. Urban Remedy, an organic food company that sells ready-to-eat meals, juices, and snacks in the Bay Area and online, launched a pre-made keto meal kit to help people dive in. The plan includes three days’ worth of low-carb, high-fat meals, so customers don’t have to keep track of their carbohydrate intake in the early days of the diet.